In an order that illustrates the bizarre views of controversial Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, a federal court has turned down Benson's motion to throw out a lawsuit filed against her for refusing to remove almost 26,000 dead voters from the Michigan voters rolls.
In mid-September 2020, the Public Interest Legal Foundation sent Benson a list of all of the deceased registrants who remained on the state's voter rolls less than two months before the presidential election
23,663 had been dead for 5 years or more, 17,479 for a decade, and 3,956 for more than two decades
The list was compared to the Social Security Administration's Death Index and matched full names, dates of birth, Social Security Numbers, and credit card information
Benson refused to take any action to verify this information and to remove those dead voters
Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, which according to Beckering, requires election officials to remove registrants from the voter registration roll because of the death of the registrant or a change in their residence, also requires transparency
Election officials must make available for public inspection and copying all records
Instead of simply settling the lawsuit and agreeing to remove the dead voters, Benson filed a motion to dismiss the case, while her spokeswoman called the lawsuit an attempt to "undermine American democracy."
The voter registration list is an essential election integrity document because it tells election officials who is eligible to vote.
Maintaining accurate, clean voter rolls is an important part of her job, and election officials should not have to be sued to force them to fulfill such a basic job requirement.
The good news is that because of this court ruling, Michigan might be one step closer to fixing this problem.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2022/08/30/why-wont-michigans-secretary-of-state-purge-dead-from-voter-rolls/
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